Who we are

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Should you use the contact form on this site we keep the contact form submissions for one year for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes. To contact us using the Contact form you are required to read and acknowledge our Privacy Policy.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track visits and for statistics. Google will anonymize your IP address as soon as technically feasible by removing the last octet of the IP address (your IP becomes 123.123.123.0 — where the last portion/octet is replaced with a ‘0’). This will happen before storage and processing begins.

Who we share your data with

This site is built using WordPress and Pro theme. WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone. We do not share your data with anyone other than Google Google Analytics and Mailchimp if you sign up for our newsletter.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

For any privacy-specific concerns you may contact us by either writing to our postal address, use the contact form on this site or email us. Should you email us with any privacy-specific concerns use the email address above and the Subject ‘Data Protection Officer Request’. We will respond to your request as soon as possible.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We do not hold any data on our computers other than that which is supplied by you as a user of this site and only if you contact us by email or contact form as outlined above.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We do not hold any data on our computers other than that which is supplied by you as a user of this site and only if you contact us by email or contact form as outlined above. We keep contact form submissions for one year for customer service purposes and these submissions are on a protected computer and virus and malware checked on a weekly basis. Should any data breach take place we will inform you as soon as possible once the data breach has been fixed.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not receive any data from third parties other than Google Analytics as outlined above.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not use any automated decision making and / or profiling with user data.